recommended art books

[ANDROPHILIA]

This book was recently published: Skinheads 1979-1984.

And the photographer's website here: http://www.derekridgers.com/index/category/gallery%7Cdocumentary%7Cskinheads/start/0

great

thanks for all suggestions

[Bob]

This is a fairly nice journal which is about the occult and magic and general counter culture stuff but also very arty and visual I probably threw this link up somewhere here before http://fulgur.co.uk/abraxas/

One issue came with a CD
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Tesserae/release/3083077

[Bob]

DIVINE TURBULENCE - BOZ MUGABE 2004-2014
http://divineturbulence.tictail.com/product/divine-turbulence-boz-mugabe-2004-2014

[P-K]

picked this up :

rubberlike/fake leather hardcover, decaying German concrete fortifications : fap fap !

publisher : http://www.uitgeverijkannibaal.be/atlantic-wall

[HongKongGoolagong]

I'll never even see a copy but the Bible of Dreams by Mark Manning, text by Bill Drummond has taken on legendary proportions in my mind. Manning is best known as absurd metal musician Zodiac Mindwarp, he's also a writer, and the art he still makes sells to private collections. Details on this very rare book -http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/klf/bible.htm

[ANDROPHILIA]

Soviet Ghosts

Photographer Rebecca Litchfield captures many abandoned location's, which were either part of the Soviet Union or occupied satellite states during this period of history, including forgotten towns, factories, prisons, schools, monuments, hospitals, theatres, military complexes, asylums & death camps across the former communist states. These photographs deliver a compelling narrative of both moral bankruptcy and flawed ideology. Featuring stunning imagery throughout, this compelling road-trip through the old USSR, breathes new life into these forgotten places, finding both beauty and meaning in their post-apocalyptic decay. Extended essays by Tristi Brownett, Neill Cockwill and Professor Owen Evans, offer considerable contextual depth to the locations imbuing them with a wealth of connection and wonder. By virtue of its holistic approach, the book also explores how and why these once thriving communities became abandoned, whether by natural disaster, man-made catastrophe or simply through the march of time.

[ANDROPHILIA]

http://shop.dittopress.co.uk/products/skinhead-an-archive

[ANDROPHILIA]

[FreakAnimalFinland]

http://shop.dittopress.co.uk/products/skinhead-an-archive

This was quite amusing. First of all, because I'd assume many people tend to dislike something about skinhead movement, but to publish book that will most likely be sort of offensive for everybody.
Those who like trad. skinheads, may be turned off by extensive WP skinhead content. Those who appreciate WP boneheads, may have hard time accepting pretty explicit gay skinhead materials. Etc.

From swastikas to cocksucking, all there in hard covers.

[tiny_tove]

this is exactly what I have enjoyed. disturbing for anybody who sticks "true" to the tag, but superb for borderline people.

[Zodiac]

Keizo Kitajima's Photo Express Tokyo is pretty awesome.  It's a cardboard slipcase set of facsimile printings of the 12 mini photo zines he did.  Super high contrast, close ups, confusing images, really cool, especially if you are obsessed with 70's 80's Japan nightlife / "counter"-culture.  Maybe it's not the all time greatest reproduction job, but judging the savagery of the material, I'm sure this is as good as it gets without spending thousands on the originals if you can even find them. 

Here're some examples, snaps I took with my phone to give a sense of what the work is like.

Thanks to your inspiration/hint i just got the last copy of Amazon for 45 Euro. Seems like this book is quite up my ally and i am looking forward to
lay my hands on it.

Same goes to the guy who did post the "Atlantic Wall" book. Great recommentations.

[vomitgore]

This would possibly have also fit into the Pornography or Cartoon threads, but I guess due to the presentation, pricing etc. it belongs here, mostly. New book on / by Stu Mead (seemingly) entitled "First comprehensive edition of Stu Mead's art" released:

http://divus.cc/en/eshop/product/books-magazines/1901/stu-mead.html

[Antica Landa]

http://shop.dittopress.co.uk/products/skinhead-an-archive

This was quite amusing. First of all, because I'd assume many people tend to dislike something about skinhead movement, but to publish book that will most likely be sort of offensive for everybody.
Those who like trad. skinheads, may be turned off by extensive WP skinhead content. Those who appreciate WP boneheads, may have hard time accepting pretty explicit gay skinhead materials. Etc.

From swastikas to cocksucking, all there in hard covers.

Ditto Press has reprinted the book in a "new" edition.
Grab a copy if you missed the first one.

[cr]

One of the best recent art book finds:

Still Life is a unique and hauntingly beautiful photographic study of the Antarctic huts that served as expedition bases for explorations led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton. At the turn of the twentieth century Antarctica was the focus of one of the last great races of exploration and discovery. Known as the 'heroic age', from 1895 to 1917 Antarctic explorers set off from their huts in search of adventure, science and glory but some, such as Scott, were never to return. The World Wars intervened and the huts were left as time capsules of Edwardian life; a portrait of King Edward VII hangs amid seal blubber, sides of mutton, a jar of gherkins, penguin eggs, cufflinks and darned trousers. One of New Zealand's best known photographers, Jane Ussher, was invited by the Antarctic Heritage Trust to record 'the unusual, the hidden and minutiae of these sites'. The Executive Director of the Trust, Nigel Watson, provides a fascinating introduction to the history and atmosphere of each hut and detailed photographic captions. Key points: features Discovery Hut (used by both Scott and Shackleton), Shackleton's Hut and Scott's Hut on Ross Island in McMurdo Sound; unique and intimate glimpse into the lives of Antarctic explorers, a subject that holds great fascination for readers worldwide; large format and seven gatefolds display Jane Ussher's intriguing and evocative photography with stunning impact.

I can't really find any online images what would represent this book well. We're talking about hundreds of A4 pages, in hardcover, with special cloth design attached in it. All full color, but in the best possible tonality! In a way, it is modern, that images are pretty sharp and colors are little bit artificially colored/improved looking. Yet, it's so damn well done, and tastefully done and most of all, this is pretty close to what I have done for years, but haven't really found any books of similar interests. So what it is? Even if few landscape and normal interior photos that may be online make you think it's just "normal" nice photobook, no. It's little different. Vast majority of the book is utmost texture studies of various objects & settings. She doesn't just take photos of "room", but may focus on very small elements. Be it macro-photo of rusty safetypin, be it frozen & torn loop of old rope. Rusty tin can surfaces. Broken penguin eggs. Penguin carcasses. Half "mummified" frozen dog that's been dead for decades... or.. century?! Skulls, jars, boxes, etc. It all plays with colors and textures of corrosion, damage and decay. And she doesn't seem to take a pressure of creating photo that would stand out due some extreme technical quality or extremely unusual target, but merely floods such a massive amount of eye-candy, it is really about photo-book. Not about some individual piece. There are no people in this book. It all simply delivers the abandoned ghost house feeling. The only actually living thing seen in the book is large amount of penguins far away in distance.

I guess book is such a new release, and done by Australian publisher, that perhaps it hasn't properly been scattered around the world. I would have not had high hopes about finding it in Finland, but from Copenhagen one could see one lonely copy asking to be purchased. For what it is, c. 30 UK pound price tag seems cheap as fuck. And not to mention there are plenty to read and many "unusual" solutions, such as extensive amount of 4 pages sized panorama folds inside the book. They really put effort to get this done.  

This is really a great book! Highly recommended!

[KillToForget]

Pretty cool to flip through, and can be found for just a few dollars